Effectiveness of Insecticides and Fungicides for the Control of Pests and Diseases of Green Gram Crop Under Rainfed Condition

A field experiment was conducted at Junagadh Agricultural University, Main Dry Farming Research Station, Targhadia (Rajkot) under North Saurashtra Agro climatic Zone of Gujarat during kharif 2016-2017, 2017-18, 202-21 and 2021-2022. Seven treatment combinations were tried in randomized block design with four replications. The seven insecticides and fungicides tested against pests and diseases of green gram revealed that the treatment of cartap hydrochloride 50% SP + hexaconazole 5 SC proved most effective for reduction of pod borer population followed by cartap hydrochloride 50% SP, NSKE 5%, Beauveria bassiana (2x10⁶ cfu /g) + Pseudomonas fluorescens 0.5% WP (1x10⁷ cfu /g), cow urine and hexaconazole. The maximum seed yield was recorded from the plots treated mixed in spray tank with cartap hydrochloride 50% SP + hexaconazole 5 SC (946 kg ha^-1) followed by cartap hydrochloride 50% SP (914 kg ha^-1), NSKE 5%, (858 kg ha^-1), Beauveria bassiana (2x10⁶ cfu /g) + Pseudomonas fluorescens 0.5% WP (1x10⁷ cfu /g), (823 kg ha^-1), cow urine (791 kg ha^-1), hexaconazole (773 kg ha^-1) whereas, minimum seed yield was obtained in untreated control. The highest net realization (20690 Rs./ha) was obtained from plots treated with cartap hydrochloride 50% SP + hexaconazole 5 SC than rest of the treatment.